Kast
President of Chile since 11 March 2026, a conservative elected on migration and growth pledges.
Kast has led Chile as president since 11 March 2026 on migration and growth pledges. His government is drafting a replacement AI bill, reported on 30 August 2026, that swaps the European Union's risk-based model for a US and Singapore approach.
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Background
Kast is Chile's president, in office since 11 March 2026, elected on a conservative platform built on migration control and economic growth.
His administration is reworking Chile's proposed artificial-intelligence law with a substitute bill running to more than twenty articles, moving away from the European Union's precautionary, risk-tiered model towards an approach closer to US and Singaporean practice. The substitute replaces, rather than amends, the earlier proposal, so it resets the debate over how Chile will regulate AI development and use.
The rewrite matters beyond Chile's borders. As governments choose between the EU's compliance-heavy template and lighter Anglo-American and Asian models, Kast's choice signals where a resource-rich, mid-sized economy expects AI investment and enforcement costs to land.
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